¿UN MUNDO SIN ABEJAS?

The Plight of the Honeybee

Mass deaths in bee colonies may mean disaster for farmers and your favorite foods

By Bryan Walsh Monday, Aug. 19, 2013

You can thank the Apis mellifera, better known as the Western honeybee, for 1 in every 3 mouthfuls you'll eat today. Honeybees — which pollinate crops like apples, blueberries and cucumbers — are the "glue that holds our agricultural system together," as the journalist Hannah Nordhaus put it in her 2011 book The Beekeeper's Lament. But that glue is failing. Bee hives are dying off or disappearing thanks to a still-unsolved malady called colony collapse disorder (CCD), so much so that commercial beekeepers are being pushed out of the business.

So what's killing the honeybees? Pesticides — including a new class called neonicotinoids — seem to be harming bees even at what should be safe levels. Biological threats like the Varroa mite are killing off colonies directly and spreading deadly diseases. As our farms become monocultures of commodity crops like wheat and corn — plants that provide little pollen for foraging bees — honeybees are literally starving to death. If we don't do something, there may not be enough honeybees to meet the pollination demands for valuable crops. But more than that, in a world where up to 100,000 species go extinct each year, the vanishing honeybee could be the herald of a permanently diminished planet.
 

Puedes agradecer a la Apis mellifera, más conocida como la abeja melífera occidental, 1 de cada 3 bocados que usted come hoy. - Las abejas que polinizan los cultivos como manzanas, arándanos y pepinos - son el "pegamento que mantiene nuestro sistema agrícola juntos", como el periodista Hannah Nordhaus puso en su libro de 2011 El lamento del Apicultor. Pero que el pegamento está fallando. Colmenas de abejas están muriendo y desapareciendo gracias a una enfermedad aún sin resolver llamado trastorno del colapso de colonias (CCD), tanto es así que los apicultores comerciales están siendo empujados fuera del negocio.

 Entonces, ¿qué está matando a las abejas? Pesticidas - incluyendo una nueva clase llamada neonicotinoides parecen estar perjudicando las abejas, incluso en lo que debería ser un nivel seguro. Amenazas biológicas como el ácaro Varroa matan off colonias directa y la propagación de enfermedades mortales. En nuestras fincas se convierten en monocultivos de cultivos de productos básicos como el trigo y el maíz - Plantas que proporcionan poco polen para las abejas libando - Las abejas están literalmente muriendo de hambre. Si no hacemos algo, puede que no haya suficientes abejas para cubrir las demandas de polinización de cultivos valiosos. Pero más que eso, en un mundo donde hasta 100.000 especies se extinguen cada año, la abeja de fuga podría ser el heraldo de un planeta disminución permanente.

 

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article.

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SOS GORILAS

Many adult gorillas must be killed for the kidnapping of ONE baby gorilla, which seldom survive the brutality & trauma of captivity.

These gorillas are being sold for huge profits world-wide and used for consumption of gorilla meat which is illegal. In July 2011, 6 baby gorillas were smuggled out of the Congo, but after attempts failed to export these gentle creatures, they were returned by the Rwandan Government, only to discover that all of the parents were slaughtered, (most likely used for bush meat). Gorillas are trapped and then sold for thousands of dollars as exotic pets in the world market. This petition would encourage the African Ambassador to urge local authorities to more effectively enforce laws which are already in place in order to protect these gentle giants from the futile slaughter and ultimate extinction of their species all together.

http://forcechange.com/3391/stop-the-slaughter-and-exploitation-of-mountain-gorillas-in-africa

ASIA'S DEMAND FOR APES IS FUELING THIS TRAFFICKING CRISIS.

''...standing orders from zoos and private owners in Asia have spurred the export of over 130 chimpanzees and 10 gorillas under falsified permits from Guinea alone, an enterprise that requires a coordinated trading network through Central and West Africa. A safari park in Thailand admitted in 2006 that it acquired at least 54 orangutans from the forests of Borneo and Sumatra.
''The illegal trade that sees almost 3,000 live great apes lost from the forests of Africa and Southeast Asia each year is increasingly impacting wild populations as links to organized crime grow stronger.
''Orangutans can fetch US$1,000 at re-sale, and gorillas illegally sold to a zoo in Malaysia in 2002 reportedly went for US$400,000 each.''

http://www.un-grasp.org/news/114-stolen-apes-counts-illegal-trade-toll

Por favor firmen peticiones, muchos gorilas adultos deben ser asesinados por el secuestro de un bebé gorila, que rara vez sobreviven a la brutalidad y al trauma de cautiverio.

Estos gorilas están siendo vendidos por enormes ganancias por todo el mundo y son utilizados para el consumo de carne de gorila que es ilegal. En julio de 2011 6 gorilas bebés se sacaron por contrabando  fuera de el Congo, pero después de intentos fallaron exportar estas suaves criaturas, fueron devueltos por el gobierno ruandés, sólo para descubrir que todos los padres fueron masacrados, (probablemente utilizados para carne de Monte). Los gorilas son atrapados y luego vendidos por miles de dólares como mascotas exóticas en el mercado mundial. Esta petición alentaría al Embajador africano para instar a las autoridades locales más efectivamente hacer cumplir las leyes que ya están en marcha para proteger a estos gentiles gigantes del sacrificio inútil y final extinción de sus especies todos juntos.

http://forcechange.com/3391/Stop-the-Slaughter-and-Exploitation-of-Mountain-gorillas-in-Africa/
 

CRISIS de ASIA y la demanda de simios está alimentando este tráfico.

''Ordenes de zoológicos y propietarios privados en Asia han estimulado la exportación de más de 130 chimpancés y 10 gorilas bajo permisos falsificados de Guinea sola, una empresa que requiere de una red comercial coordinada a través de África Central y occidental. Un parque de safari en Tailandia admitió en 2006 que adquirió al menos 54 orangutanes de los bosques de Borneo y Sumatra.

''El comercio ilegal que ve casi 3.000 viven grandes simios perdidos de los bosques de África y Asia Sur-Oriental cada año está impactando cada vez más poblaciones silvestres como se fortalecen vínculos con el crimen organizado.

'' Los orangutanes se pueden buscar a US$ 1.000 en reventa, y gorilas vendidos ilegalmente a un zoológico en Malasia en 2002 al parecer fueron por US$ 400.000 cada uno''

http://www.un-grasp.org/news/114-stolen-apes-counts-illegal-trade-toll
 

       
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CURIOSIDADES

¿Can orcas have pets?

We often observe fur seals or Dall's porpoises following groups of fish-eating orcas. But this group we saw some days ago had an unusual companion. A single Pacific white-sided dolphin was travelling with the orcas, as a normal group member, for at least 1.5 hours. At first we mistakenly thought he was a strangely coloured calf. This is amazing to us not only because of this weird companionship, but also because Pacific white-sided dolphins are rarely seen in this area. We have never observed them before in the nearshore waters of the Commander Islands. Perhaps this dolphin was travelling with orcas for a while and then followed them to our research area from offshore or more southern waters where this species is more common. The more you look closely at nature, the stranger it becomes.

https://www.facebook.com/russianorca?ref=hl 

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MANIFESTACION DEL 27 DE JULIO 2013 MAR DEL PLATA

"EMPTY THE TANKS"

ARGENTINA-MAR DEL PLATA

 

 AGRUPACIÓN ANIMALISTAS MDP

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ACTIVISTAS AUTOCONVOCADOS

 

 FRENTE DE LIBERACIÓN ANIMAL , MDP PSICOLOGÍA

 

ELLOS TAMBIEN PIDEN POR LOS DERECHOS DE LOS ANIMALES

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www.miradorvirtual.com/nota/item,27456/seccion,10/subseccion,0/titulo,aquarium-hubo-una-protesta-en-el-dia-mundial-contra-oceanarios

 

 MIAMI

 

 MIAMI SEA WORD CON O´BARRY

 

 

 JAPÓN

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JAPÓN

 

Fotos de Ellie Tanaka Empty the Tanks! Japan (Kamogawa Sea World)

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Empty the Tanks Worldwide

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How One Family Went From SeaWorld Fans to Foes in a Single Show

When park staff do nothing to help a beached pilot whale, these people take action.

Dolphin stuck at SeaWorld Orlando FL

Last Saturday, when Carlo De Leonibus and his wife took their daughter, Cat, to SeaWorld Orlando for her 11th birthday, they expected yet another exciting afternoon of whale and dolphin watching. SeaWorld was a regular destination for the Tampa-area family, and it had inspired young Cat to become a dolphin trainer when she grew up. But after what they witnessed at Whale and Dolphin Stadium, Cat’s career plans have changed, and her family will not be returning to SeaWorld.

The show was a sort of low-rent version of Cirque du Soleil starring dolphins, short-finned pilot whales (members of the dolphin family), and tropical birds. In the midst of the entertainment, one of the small whales leapt up onto the “slide-out” area, where it became beached and unable to move back into the pool.
It was an ugly sight: The whale rocked and writhed, vainly trying to push itself back to the water. Many in the audience began shouting and even swearing, demanding that someone on staff do something to assist the poor animal that was clearly in distress.
The crowd was extremely furious. People were stomping their feet. Everyone wanted that dolphin to be helped.They waited and waited, but to De Leonibus’ astonishment, no one intervened, he tells TakePart in an exclusive interview. “The crowd was extremely furious. People were stomping their feet. Everyone wanted that dolphin to be helped,” De Leonibus recalls. “One man said he was going to go protest outside the park’s gates.”
De Leonibus had seen enough. The struggling pilot whale had been stuck for at least 10 minutes, he estimates, “though my wife and daughter think it was more like 20 minutes.”
The distraught father went to confront a nearby staffer, who “said everything was just fine, the dolphin was just playing,” he recalls. The worker casually told him, “We teach them to do that, to roll back in the water themselves.” But De Leonibus says, “He wasn’t even looking at the animal.”
De Leonibus was stunned by the ho-hum attitude of the staff. “They were laughing and smirking at our concern,” he says. “They acted like this is what dolphins do all the time.”
That’s when he returned to the stands, picked up his camera, and began recording the pathetic scene. His video (above), complete with the cries of a freaked-out audience, is now on YouTube with 18,413 views and counting.
“The dolphin! He’s stuck!” someone can be heard screaming. As the screaming continued and the whale floundered and flailed, the video shows other pilot whales make futile attempts to liberate their marooned tank-mate.
A thunderstorm was barreling in and the show was postponed. The crowd waited for it to pass. Another 10 minutes or so elapsed before two trainers finally walked over and pushed the whale back in the water, De Leonibus says. According to that account, the animal spent about 20 to 30 minutes in a stranded position.
Meanwhile, young Cat was growing more upset by the moment.
“I went up to where it was and began screaming at a trainer to help the dolphin,” she tells TakePart. “He said they leave them there to learn how to get down, but the dolphin was still stuck after 30 minutes and people were screaming louder and harder. I felt so bad for the dolphin, and kept pointing it out, but he wouldn’t listen. He told my dad, ‘We can’t do anything about it.’ ”
The family did not wait out the storm. They walked out, never to return. It left an indelible impact on the birthday girl. “I wanted to train dolphins and work with them. They are my favorite animals. They’re smart and seem really nice,” she says. But after this incident, “I would not go work for SeaWorld.”
Cetaceans hauling themselves onto slide-outs, unbidden by trainers, is nothing new; there are other online videos of stuck animals. Captive whales and dolphins who beach themselves for more than a few moments, especially pregnant females, can develop health problems. I wrote about this in Death at SeaWorld, and you can witness a pregnant dolphin voluntarily beaching herself here (also notice the difference between this behavior and that of the desperate pilot whale De Leonibus filmed).
“Whales getting stuck was a regular but relatively infrequent occurrence when I worked there,” says ex-trainer Jeff Ventre, an important figure in both Death at SeaWorld and the documentary Blackfish. Slide-outs “are a bit slippery, so the animals don’t damage their ventral surfaces, but this also means they can slide too far up and get stuck, Ventre tells TakePart. “The bottom line is that small cetaceans in captivity face unnatural health risks from various causes, including pool design.”

 

BREAKING: U.S. Government Hits SeaWorld With Safety Violation—Again

 

Courtney Vail, of Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), concurs. “It’s clear that SeaWorld teaches slide-out behavior, for a variety of reasons: medical care, performances, public interaction, etcetera, so we cannot say this is natural behavior,” she tells TakePart. “Either they are conditioned to do this as a learned behavior, or they’re showing their own free will in choosing to strand, either for attention, boredom, or perhaps even to escape from aggressive poolmates. Either way, it is byproduct of confinement and certainly has potential implications for their health and welfare.”
When asked about the video over email, SeaWorld spokesman Fred Jacobs responded, “Pilot whales come out on the ledge all the time and always get back into the deeper water without any problem. The younger animals are still inexperienced and sometimes it takes them a bit longer.”
Jacobs wrote that the animal in the video was a young pilot whale that was “saved by our animal rescue team when it beached in South Florida.” He explains, “After it was rescued and rehabilitated, it was deemed unreleasable by the federal government and became a part of our collection.”
A commenter on the YouTube video who seemed to have inside knowledge of SeaWorld wrote, “I never said it was normal behavior, but… It’s just something they seem to like doing and if they didn’t like it they wouldn’t do it so much.” When there’s lightning, the person added, “trainers leave the stage which may be the reason it took so long.”
If the lightning initially kept the trainers from coming to the animal’s rescue, then SeaWorld seems to have a double standard for staff and visitors, because the front of the metal stadium seating is exposed to the elements, including where the De Leonibus family sat.
WDC’s Vail does not want to overstate the situation, but adds: “I’m encouraged that the public is clearly focused on the plight of this one whale. They definitely know and feel something isn’t right. Their distress mirrors the potential distress of this whale, and speaks to our growing disaffection with captivity.”
For Cat and Carlo, “disaffection” is putting it mildly.

 6 Ways You Can Help Save Captive Killer Whales Right Now 

 
“I had no idea about SeaWorld before this incident,” he says. “I thought it was a rescue organization that took care of animals. I honestly thought they sent animals back to the wild.”
After posting his video, De Leonibus was contacted by DigitalJournal environmental writer Elizabeth Batt. “She told me all about captivity, how these creatures in shows are not released,” he says. “I had no idea SeaWorld employees could care so little or show no concern. To work there and show no compassion for an animal that was stranded and panicking is frightening to think about since they rely on SeaWorld employees to take care of them.”
Batt tells TakePart, “SeaWorld is supposedly a family-oriented business. What happened obviously upset Cat tremendously, and they didn’t care. If they preach to kids, then they should answer to kids.”
De Leonibus wishes he could get his hefty entry fees back, “to donate it for a cause to save these animals and help their natural habitat.” Meanwhile, he reaffirms, “my daughter no longer wants to be a dolphin trainer at SeaWorld and wants to work with animals in their own habitat, like a marine biologist would.”
And, he adds, “If there are any suggestions on careers where my daughter could work with dolphins outside of captivity, I’d love to know, because after what we saw, that’s her future goal.”

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/24/seaworld-shows-beached-whale-youtube?cmpid=tpanimals-eml-2013-07-29-dolphin

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